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New Taxpayer Funded Patents for Tuesday, April 04, 2023 

This page was updated on Tuesday, April 04, 2023 at 07:24 AM GMT

FedInvent analyzed 112 taxpayer-funded patents this week.

On Tuesday, April 04, 2023, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) granted 112 taxpayer-funded patents; including 103 patents containing government interest statements and 31 patents where federal government agencies were an assignee or applicant. Together, 112 patents granted this week are the result of US government-funded research & development.

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The List of This Week's Patents

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Patent Title
001 11617369
 
Antimicrobial gallium compounds and methods 
002 11617382
 
Palatable foods for a methionine-restricted diet 
003 11617626
 
Robotic surgical devices, systems and related methods 
004 11617722
 
Two-stage microparticle-based therapeutic delivery system and method 
005 11617738
 
6-amino-2,4-dihydropyrano [2,3-c] pyrazoles and methods of use 
006 11617741
 
Method for inhibiting growth of bacteria 
007 11617743
 
Formulations of hydroxypyridonate actinide/lanthanide decorporation agents 
008 11617753
 
Methods of treating and inhibiting Ebola virus infection 
009 11617759
 
Methods and compositions relating to ClbP inhibition 
010 11617761
 
Methods for treating NLRP3 inflammasome-associated diseases, and methods of identifying agents useful therefor 
011 11617766
 
Notch receptors with hinge domain 
012 11617779
 
Inhibition of endosomal toll-like receptor activation 
013 11617780
 
Antigenic Epstein Barr virus polypeptides 
014 11617782
 
Treatment of post-bariatric hypoglycemia with exendin (9-39) 
015 11617787
 
Cancer immunotherapy using virus particles 
016 11617788
 
Viral promoters and compositions and methods of use thereof 
017 11617800
 
Nanoparticle-enhanced activity of a potassium channel-blocking peptide 
018 11617801
 
RP2 and RPGR vectors for treating X-linked retinitis pigmentosa 
019 11617804
 
Hyaluronic acid-based nanoparticles as biosensors for imaging-guided surgery and drug delivery vehicles and methods associated therewith 
020 11617817
 
Biomaterials for enhanced implant-host integration 
021 11617887
 
Systems and methods for brain stimulation for recovery from brain injury, such as stroke 
022 11617890
 
Flexible complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor probes for chronic, large-scale neural stimulation and recording 
023 11617969
 
Activated release of target material trapped in anisotropic fluids 
024 11617992
 
High temperature steam separation membrane 
025 11617998
 
Metal boride aerogels 
026 11618019
 
Portable electrical impedance-based blood testing device for diagnosis and monitoring sickle cell disease 
027 11618021
 
Volume-free reagent addition and exclusion-based sample preparation for streamlined multi-step assays 
028 11618031
 
Multi-sample chamber for extended term microscope imaging 
029 11618059
 
Vertical high-pressure rinse machine 
030 11618077
 
Method for producing nanoparticles and the nanoparticles produced therefrom 
031 11618159
 
Soft continuum robotic module 
032 11618249
 
Dual photoinitiated nanocomposite-ink printing 
033 11618275
 
Optical switch devices 
034 11618535
 
Motion damping system for tank of liquid 
035 11618592
 
Modular architecture for an extensible SmallSat (MARES) command and data handling hardware 
036 11618594
 
System and method for daylight imaging of high altitude objects 
037 11618681
 
Graphene nanoribbons grown from aromatic molecular seeds 
038 11618719
 
Carbon fiber reinforced carbon foams 
039 11618734
 
Biemamides and related scaffolds as inhibitors of transforming growth factor-beta signaling 
040 11618745
 
Unsymmeirical salts, CCC-NHC pincer metal complexes, and methods of making the same 
041 11618752
 
Compositions, uses and methods for making them 
042 11618764
 
Reagents and methods for screening MPS I, II, IIIA, IIIB, IVA, VI, and VII 
043 11618780
 
Composition and method for activating latent human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) 
044 11618798
 
Quasicrystalline structures and uses thereof 
045 11618821
 
Electrically conducting poly(pyrazoles) 
046 11618835
 
Method of controlled conversion of thermosetting resins and additive manufacturing thereof by selective laser sintering 
047 11618876
 
Method and apparatus for processing tissue samples 
048 11618882
 
Micro-fluidic device for selective sorting of highly motile and morphologically normal sperm from unprocessed semen 
049 11618896
 
Systems, methods, and compositions for targeted nucleic acid editing 
050 11618898
 
Compositions and methods for activating silent gene clusters 
051 11618899
 
Cloning and expression vectors and systems 
052 11618900
 
Modulating SYNGAP 
053 11618914
 
Method for the production of xylobiose and other defined xylooligosaccharides 
054 11618918
 
Methods and systems for determining spatial patterns of biological targets in a sample 
055 11618919
 
Ultrasensitive micro RNA quantification 
056 11618922
 
Biomarkers of immune dysfunction in response to chronic stress, methods of use and diagnostic kits 
057 11618923
 
Methods of determining multiple interactions between nucleic acids in a cell 
058 11618924
 
Methods and compositions relating to OPRM1 DNA methylation for personalized pain management 
059 11618926
 
Methods for diagnosing, prognosing, and treating colorectal cancer using biomarker expression 
060 11618928
 
CRISPR effector system based diagnostics for malaria detection 
061 11618961
 
Electrochemically produced materials; devices and methods for production 
062 11619150
 
Lubrication fluid storage system with venting 
063 11619170
 
Gas turbine engine with radial turbine having modulated fuel cooled cooling air 
064 11619172
 
Detonation combustion systems 
065 11619193
 
Scramjet isolator 
066 11619255
 
System and method of making a crankshaft with alternate materials 
067 11619277
 
Fluid-filled frequency-tunable vibration damper 
068 11619570
 
Filter-based air sampler capable of integration into small unmanned aerial vehicles 
069 11619580
 
Resonator-based ion-selective sensor 
070 11619581
 
Method of phase contrasting 
071 11619583
 
Highly stable semiconductor lasers and sensors for III-V and silicon photonic integrated circuits 
072 11619631
 
Ultra-sensitive detection of molecules or particles using beads or other capture objects 
073 11619635
 
Process for ultra-sensitive quantification of target analytes in complex biological systems 
074 11619660
 
Electrometry by optical charge conversion of defects in the solid-state 
075 11619691
 
Integrated cooling circuit for use with a superconducting magnet 
076 11619718
 
Integrated optical structures for LiDAR and other applications employing multiple detectors 
077 11619847
 
Utilizing 2D monolayer WSe2 nanosheets as the planar-alignment agent in an electro-optical liquid crystal device to improve its optical transmission 
078 11619951
 
On-demand high-capacity ride-sharing via dynamic trip-vehicle assignment with future requests 
079 11620106
 
Parallel hybrid adder 
080 11620384
 
Independent malware detection architecture 
081 11620415
 
And manufacture of generalized flow profile-producing devices 
082 11620461
 
Wearable data storage and transmission device for processing sensor data 
083 11620548
 
System, method, and computer program product for predicting parasitics in an electronic design 
084 11620556
 
Hardware architecture and processing units for exact Bayesian inference with on-line learning and methods for same 
085 11620560
 
Quantum computing device using two gate types to prevent frequency collisions in superconducting quantum computers 
086 11620561
 
Method and system for a quantum oracle to obtain the number of quantum ground states 
087 11620893
 
Human awareness telemetry apparatus, systems, and methods 
088 11621058
 
Synthetic IHC-stained digital sides generated using artificial neural networks 
089 11621094
 
Method of making atomic number (Z) grade small sat radiation shielding vault 
090 11621097
 
System and process for purification of Astatine-211 from target materials 
091 11621111
 
Strategies to perform magnetization reversals in ferromagnets 
092 11621146
 
Plasma impedance tomography for plasma parameter imaging 
093 11621355
 
Biomimetic 2D transistor for audiomorphic computing 
094 11621362
 
Solar panel 
095 11621365
 
Water soluble oxide liftoff layers for GaAs photovoltaics 
096 11621414
 
Lithium metal pouch cells and methods of making the same 
097 11621433
 
Proton exchange membrane material and methods of making the same 
098 11621438
 
Solid electrolyte interphase (SEI) application on anode of fluoride ion/shuttle batteries 
099 11621439
 
Cathode for alkaline earth air batteries 
100 11621457
 
Lithium oxyhalide battery separator material 
101 11621583
 
Distributed control adaptive wireless power transfer system 
102 11621604
 
Integrated electro-hydraulic machine 
103 11621668
 
Solar array fault detection, classification, and localization using deep neural nets 
104 11621671
 
Nanomechanical networks for computation 
105 11621689
 
Low-loss and wide-band acoustic delay lines using Z-cut lithium niobate piezoelectric thin films 
106 11621721
 
Optimized, automatic impedance-matching system 
107 11621774
 
Control and prognosis of power electronic devices using light 
108 11621789
 
Under-liquid communication using magneto-quasistatic signals 
109 11621876
 
Clipping-enhanced data communication 
110 11621973
 
Blockchain cybersecurity audit platform 
111 11622062
 
Ruggedized miniaturized infrared camera system for aerospace environments 
112 11622270
 
Method and apparatus for millimeter-wave physical layer authentication 

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Patent Count By Department

This is the count of taxpayer-funded patents granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) this week. These patents contain a Government Interest Statement in the body of the patent document or are patents where the government is an assignee. Agency numbers are aggregated by the agency named in the Government Interests Statement and the contract number cited in the government interest section of the patent.

Department This Week This Year
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) 39 655
Department of Defense (DOD) 36 501
Department of Energy (DOE) 23 289
National Science Foundation (NSF) 19 309
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) 8 53
Department of Agriculture (USDA) 2 40
Department of Education (ED) 1 3
Department of the Treasury (TREASURY) 1 2

Patents By Funding Agency

FedInvent Patents are patents funded by US taxpayers. Taxpayer-funded patents have Government Interest Statements in the body of the patent or are patents where an agency of the US federal government has retained the title to the patent and is listed as an assignee. The presence of a government interest statement, as required by the Bayh-Dole Act, indicates the holder of a federal contract, grant, or cooperative research agreement has elected to retain the title of inventions conceived and reduced to practice during that contract.

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Patent Title
001 11617369
 
Antimicrobial gallium compounds and methods 
002 11617382
 
Palatable foods for a methionine-restricted diet 
003 11617722
 
Two-stage microparticle-based therapeutic delivery system and method 
004 11617738
 
6-amino-2,4-dihydropyrano [2,3-c] pyrazoles and methods of use 
005 11617743
 
Formulations of hydroxypyridonate actinide/lanthanide decorporation agents 
006 11617753
 
Methods of treating and inhibiting Ebola virus infection 
007 11617759
 
Methods and compositions relating to ClbP inhibition 
008 11617761
 
Methods for treating NLRP3 inflammasome-associated diseases, and methods of identifying agents useful therefor 
009 11617766
 
Notch receptors with hinge domain 
010 11617779
 
Inhibition of endosomal toll-like receptor activation 
011 11617780
 
Antigenic Epstein Barr virus polypeptides 
012 11617782
 
Treatment of post-bariatric hypoglycemia with exendin (9-39) 
013 11617787
 
Cancer immunotherapy using virus particles 
014 11617788
 
Viral promoters and compositions and methods of use thereof 
015 11617801
 
RP2 and RPGR vectors for treating X-linked retinitis pigmentosa 
016 11617804
 
Hyaluronic acid-based nanoparticles as biosensors for imaging-guided surgery and drug delivery vehicles and methods associated therewith 
017 11617817
 
Biomaterials for enhanced implant-host integration 
018 11617887
 
Systems and methods for brain stimulation for recovery from brain injury, such as stroke 
019 11618021
 
Volume-free reagent addition and exclusion-based sample preparation for streamlined multi-step assays 
020 11618734
 
Biemamides and related scaffolds as inhibitors of transforming growth factor-beta signaling 
021 11618745
 
Unsymmeirical salts, CCC-NHC pincer metal complexes, and methods of making the same 
022 11618764
 
Reagents and methods for screening MPS I, II, IIIA, IIIB, IVA, VI, and VII 
023 11618780
 
Composition and method for activating latent human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) 
024 11618876
 
Method and apparatus for processing tissue samples 
025 11618896
 
Systems, methods, and compositions for targeted nucleic acid editing 
026 11618898
 
Compositions and methods for activating silent gene clusters 
027 11618900
 
Modulating SYNGAP 
028 11618918
 
Methods and systems for determining spatial patterns of biological targets in a sample 
029 11618919
 
Ultrasensitive micro RNA quantification 
030 11618923
 
Methods of determining multiple interactions between nucleic acids in a cell 
031 11618924
 
Methods and compositions relating to OPRM1 DNA methylation for personalized pain management 
032 11618926
 
Methods for diagnosing, prognosing, and treating colorectal cancer using biomarker expression 
033 11618928
 
CRISPR effector system based diagnostics for malaria detection 
034 11619581
 
Method of phase contrasting 
035 11619631
 
Ultra-sensitive detection of molecules or particles using beads or other capture objects 
036 11619635
 
Process for ultra-sensitive quantification of target analytes in complex biological systems 
037 11619691
 
Integrated cooling circuit for use with a superconducting magnet 
038 11621058
 
Synthetic IHC-stained digital sides generated using artificial neural networks 
039 11621583
 
Distributed control adaptive wireless power transfer system 

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Department of Defense (DOD) Agencies

Patent Title
001 11617626
 
Robotic surgical devices, systems and related methods 
002 11618752
 
Compositions, uses and methods for making them 
003 11619718
 
Integrated optical structures for LiDAR and other applications employing multiple detectors 
004 11620548
 
System, method, and computer program product for predicting parasitics in an electronic design 
005 11620556
 
Hardware architecture and processing units for exact Bayesian inference with on-line learning and methods for same 
006 11621689
 
Low-loss and wide-band acoustic delay lines using Z-cut lithium niobate piezoelectric thin films 

Department of the ARMY (DOA)

Patent Title
001 11617626
 
Robotic surgical devices, systems and related methods 
002 11617890
 
Flexible complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor probes for chronic, large-scale neural stimulation and recording 
003 11617969
 
Activated release of target material trapped in anisotropic fluids 
004 11618021
 
Volume-free reagent addition and exclusion-based sample preparation for streamlined multi-step assays 
005 11618681
 
Graphene nanoribbons grown from aromatic molecular seeds 
006 11618752
 
Compositions, uses and methods for making them 
007 11618922
 
Biomarkers of immune dysfunction in response to chronic stress, methods of use and diagnostic kits 
008 11619150
 
Lubrication fluid storage system with venting 
009 11619660
 
Electrometry by optical charge conversion of defects in the solid-state 
010 11620560
 
Quantum computing device using two gate types to prevent frequency collisions in superconducting quantum computers 
011 11621671
 
Nanomechanical networks for computation 

Department of the Navy (DON) | United States Marine Corps (USMC)

Patent Title
001 11617800
 
Nanoparticle-enhanced activity of a potassium channel-blocking peptide 
002 11618821
 
Electrically conducting poly(pyrazoles) 
003 11619172
 
Detonation combustion systems 
004 11619583
 
Highly stable semiconductor lasers and sensors for III-V and silicon photonic integrated circuits 
005 11619847
 
Utilizing 2D monolayer WSe2 nanosheets as the planar-alignment agent in an electro-optical liquid crystal device to improve its optical transmission 
006 11619951
 
On-demand high-capacity ride-sharing via dynamic trip-vehicle assignment with future requests 
007 11620106
 
Parallel hybrid adder 
008 11620556
 
Hardware architecture and processing units for exact Bayesian inference with on-line learning and methods for same 
009 11620893
 
Human awareness telemetry apparatus, systems, and methods 
010 11621146
 
Plasma impedance tomography for plasma parameter imaging 
011 11621721
 
Optimized, automatic impedance-matching system 
012 11621774
 
Control and prognosis of power electronic devices using light 
013 11622270
 
Method and apparatus for millimeter-wave physical layer authentication 

Department of the Air Force (DAF)| United States Space Force (USSF)

Patent Title
001 11618249
 
Dual photoinitiated nanocomposite-ink printing 
002 11618594
 
System and method for daylight imaging of high altitude objects 
003 11619170
 
Gas turbine engine with radial turbine having modulated fuel cooled cooling air 
004 11619172
 
Detonation combustion systems 
005 11619193
 
Scramjet isolator 
006 11619570
 
Filter-based air sampler capable of integration into small unmanned aerial vehicles 
007 11621355
 
Biomimetic 2D transistor for audiomorphic computing 

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Take Me To The Details
Patent Title
001 11617743
 
Formulations of hydroxypyridonate actinide/lanthanide decorporation agents 
002 11617992
 
High temperature steam separation membrane 
003 11617998
 
Metal boride aerogels 
004 11618059
 
Vertical high-pressure rinse machine 
005 11618077
 
Method for producing nanoparticles and the nanoparticles produced therefrom 
006 11618681
 
Graphene nanoribbons grown from aromatic molecular seeds 
007 11618798
 
Quasicrystalline structures and uses thereof 
008 11618835
 
Method of controlled conversion of thermosetting resins and additive manufacturing thereof by selective laser sintering 
009 11618899
 
Cloning and expression vectors and systems 
010 11619255
 
System and method of making a crankshaft with alternate materials 
011 11619580
 
Resonator-based ion-selective sensor 
012 11619635
 
Process for ultra-sensitive quantification of target analytes in complex biological systems 
013 11620384
 
Independent malware detection architecture 
014 11621097
 
System and process for purification of Astatine-211 from target materials 
015 11621111
 
Strategies to perform magnetization reversals in ferromagnets 
016 11621362
 
Solar panel 
017 11621365
 
Water soluble oxide liftoff layers for GaAs photovoltaics 
018 11621414
 
Lithium metal pouch cells and methods of making the same 
019 11621433
 
Proton exchange membrane material and methods of making the same 
020 11621438
 
Solid electrolyte interphase (SEI) application on anode of fluoride ion/shuttle batteries 
021 11621439
 
Cathode for alkaline earth air batteries 
022 11621604
 
Integrated electro-hydraulic machine 
023 11621973
 
Blockchain cybersecurity audit platform 

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Take Me To The Details
Patent Title
001 11617741
 
Method for inhibiting growth of bacteria 
002 11617787
 
Cancer immunotherapy using virus particles 
003 11617887
 
Systems and methods for brain stimulation for recovery from brain injury, such as stroke 
004 11617969
 
Activated release of target material trapped in anisotropic fluids 
005 11618019
 
Portable electrical impedance-based blood testing device for diagnosis and monitoring sickle cell disease 
006 11618031
 
Multi-sample chamber for extended term microscope imaging 
007 11618077
 
Method for producing nanoparticles and the nanoparticles produced therefrom 
008 11618159
 
Soft continuum robotic module 
009 11618745
 
Unsymmeirical salts, CCC-NHC pincer metal complexes, and methods of making the same 
010 11618798
 
Quasicrystalline structures and uses thereof 
011 11618882
 
Micro-fluidic device for selective sorting of highly motile and morphologically normal sperm from unprocessed semen 
012 11618961
 
Electrochemically produced materials; devices and methods for production 
013 11619660
 
Electrometry by optical charge conversion of defects in the solid-state 
014 11620556
 
Hardware architecture and processing units for exact Bayesian inference with on-line learning and methods for same 
015 11620561
 
Method and system for a quantum oracle to obtain the number of quantum ground states 
016 11621438
 
Solid electrolyte interphase (SEI) application on anode of fluoride ion/shuttle batteries 
017 11621583
 
Distributed control adaptive wireless power transfer system 
018 11621668
 
Solar array fault detection, classification, and localization using deep neural nets 
019 11621876
 
Clipping-enhanced data communication 

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Emerging Technology

Emerging Climate Change Technologies

Patents containing 'Y" CPC symbols indicate emerging climate change and clean technology inventions.

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Class
Y02E Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution
11621362  Solar panel      
11621365  Water soluble oxide liftoff layers for GaAs photovoltaics      
11621457  Lithium oxyhalide battery separator material      

About Y Emerging Technology Symbols

Patent documents that contain a Y02 or Y04 CPC symbol are already classified elsewhere. USPTO adds the Y symbols to the classification data to monitor new technological developments covering clean technology and inventions impacting climate change, important American science and technology interests.

Y02 — Green House Gas Mitigation

Y02 covers selected technologies, that control, reduce, or prevent anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases (GHG), in the framework of the Kyoto Protocol and the Paris Agreement, and technologies that allow adapting to the adverse effects of climate change. Y02A covers technologies for adaptation to climate change, — technologies that allow adapting to the adverse effects of climate change in human, industrial (including agriculture and livestock), and economic activities. Y02P covers climate change mitigation technologies in any kind of industrial processing or production activity, including the agroalimentary industry (relating to agriculture and food), agriculture, fishing, ranching and the like.

Y04 — Enabling Technologies

Y04 is focused on the information and communications inventions that facilitate climate change technology. Y04S covers systems integrating technologies related to power network operation, communication, or information technologies for improving electrical power generation, transmission, distribution, management, or usage. Examples of the art covered here are technologies related to smart grids, home appliances, and systems supporting the interoperability of electric or hybrid vehicles.

The Health Complex

This section contains the count of patents funded by The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) organized by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) institute; and HHS subagencies including the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the Center for Disease Control (CDC), and others. These agencies together are called the Health Complex.

Department | Agency This Week This Year
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)39655
National Institutes of Health (NIH)37637
National Cancer Institute (NCI)10172
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)795
National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS)583
National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)323
NIH Office of the Director (NIHOD)317
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)256
National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR)214
National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB)259
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)267
National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI)223
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS)18
National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)112
National Center for Research Resources (NCRR)18
National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS)112
Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR)14
Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA)13

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Higher Education Research and Development (HERD)

FedInvent follows the HERD the Higher Education Research and Development institutions — the colleges and universities; research institutions, and medical schools that benefit from federal funding and rely on it to make important discoveries that drive American innovation. Taxpayer-funded patents coming from American and sometimes foreign universities are an important indicia of the vitality of the American innovation ecosphere.

MEMBERS OF THE HERD

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Higher Education Research and Development (HERD) Survey is the primary source of information on R&D expenditures at 916 US colleges and universities that expended at least $150,000 in separately accounted for R&D in the fiscal year. We use the NSF list to keep track of which colleges and universities are receiving taxpayer-funded patents and filing patent applications.

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We're working on our data analytics and will be reporting taxpayer-funded patents and patent applications shortly. In the meantime, FedInvent will post interesting information about the HERD Innovation Ecosphere here.

Top Ten Universities By R&D Expenditures
  1. Johns Hopkins University
  2. University of Michigan
  3. University of Washington
  4. University of California, San Diego
  5. University of California, San Francisco
  6. Columbia University in the City of New York
  7. Stanford University
  8. University Pittsburgh
  9. University Pennsylvania
  10. Duke University

Count By Tech Center

Patents organized by count and Technology Center where the patent was examined.

Tech Center Count
1600 Biotechnology and Organic Chemistry 37
1700 Chemical and Materials Engineering 24
2800 Semiconductors, Electrical and Optical Systems and Components 21
2600 Communications 8
3700 Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing, Gaming and Medical Devices/Processes 7
2100 Computer Architecture Software and Information Security 6
3600 Transportation, Electronic Commerce, Construction, Agriculture, Licensing and Review 6
2400 Computer Networks, Multiplex, Cable and Cryptography/Security 3

For more information on the types of inventions examined in each Technology Center, see the About Tech Centers section of this page.

Patents By Scientific Domain.

This section contains the number of patents by high level scientific and technical domain. The data is arranged by the first Cooperative Patent Classification System (CPC) patent symbol assigned to the patent. This indicates the scope and nature of the invention for a patent or a patent application.

Global patent offices use patent classification as their lingua franca — the common language — for exchanging information about inventions and what scientific and technical art a patent contains. The classifications assigned to a patent are used by patent examiners to find prior art and to determine if a particular patent's claims are novel. Patent classifications are also used for global enforcement of patent rights, treaties, and agreements.

Class Class Definition First
(Original)
Inventive
(CrossRef)
CPC A61 Medical or Veterinary Science; Hygiene 20 112
CPC C12 Biochemistry; Beer; Spirits; Wine; Vinegar; Microbiology; Enzymology; Mutation or Genetic Engineering 14 77
CPC H01 Basic Electric Elements 10 70
CPC G01 Measuring; Testing 9 51
CPC B01 Physical or Chemical Processes or Apparatus in General 6 41
CPC G06 Computing; Calculating; Counting 8 33
CPC C07 Organic Chemistry 5 26
CPC B32 Layered Products 0 26
CPC C08 Organic Macromolecular Compounds; Their Preparation or Chemical Working-up; Compositions Based Thereon 2 23
CPC H04 Electric Communication Technique 6 18
CPC A23 Foods or Foodstuffs; Treatment Thereof, Not Covered by Other Classes 1 23
CPC B22 Casting; Powder Metallurgy 1 16
CPC H03 Basic Electronic Circuitry 3 12
CPC H02 Generation; Conversion or Distribution of Electric Power 3 11
CPC F16 Engineering Elements and Units; General Measures for Producing and Maintaining Effective Functioning of Machines or Installations; Thermal Insulation in General 2 11
CPC G02 Optics 1 12
CPC C04 Cements; Concrete; Artificial Stone; Ceramics; Refractories 1 10
CPC F05 Indexing Schemes Relating to Engines or Pumps in Various Subclasses of Classes F01-F04 0 10
CPC B64 Aircraft; Aviation; Cosmonautics 2 6
CPC F02 Combustion Engines; Hot-gas or Combustion-product Engine Plants 3 4
CPC C09 Dyes; Paints; Polishes; Natural Resins; Adhesives; Compositions Not Otherwise Provided For; Applications of Materials Not Otherwise Provided for 1 6
CPC B42 Bookbinding; Albums; Files; Special Printed Matter 1 5
CPC G21 Nuclear Physics; Nuclear Engineering 2 3
CPC A01 Agriculture; Forestry; Animal Husbandry; Hunting; Trapping; Fishing 1 4
CPC C01 Inorganic Chemistry 1 4
CPC B25 Hand Tools; Portable Power-driven Tools; Manipulators 1 3
CPC G05 Controlling; Regulating 1 3
CPC C25 Electrolytic or Electrophoretic Processes; Apparatus Therefor 1 2
CPC F01 Machines or Engines in General; Engine Plants in General; Steam Engines 1 2
CPC Y02 Technologies or Applications for Mitigation or Adaptation Against Climate Change 0 3
CPC B08 Cleaning 1 1
CPC B63 Ships or Other Waterborne Vessels; Related Equipment 1 1
CPC G08 Signalling 1 1
CPC B41 Printing; Lining Machines; Typewriters; Stamps 1 0
CPC G16 Information and Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted for Specific Application Fields 1 0

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Count of Inventors by Country and U.S. State

Patent count by country and state based on the location information of first named inventors and of all inventors on the patent.

Country First Named Inventors All Inventors
United States of America 109 381
Netherlands 1 3
India 1 2
France 1 1
Australia 0 1
Japan 0 1
South Korea 0 1
U.S. State First Named Inventors All Inventors
California 18 63
Maryland 9 22
Massachusetts 7 36
Washington 7 28
Illinois 7 22
New York 7 22
Wisconsin 6 20
Ohio 6 19
Indiana 5 13
Virginia 4 24
Alabama 3 12
Texas 3 12
New Jersey 3 11
Arizona 3 10
North Carolina 3 9
Florida 3 7
District of Columbia 2 5
Nebraska 2 4
New Mexico 2 4
Mississippi 2 3
Pennsylvania 1 7
Michigan 1 6
Tennessee 1 6
Louisiana 1 4
Oregon 1 3
Colorado 1 2
Rhode Island 1 2
New Hampshire 0 4
South Carolina 0 1

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Count of Assignees and Applicants by Country and U.S. State

Patent count by country and state based on location information of Assignees and Applicants.

Country Assignees Applicants
United States of America 120134
France 11
Japan 11
Singapore 11
U.S. State Assignees Applicants
California 2020
Massachusetts 1515
District of Columbia 127
Illinois 99
New York 99
Washington 78
Ohio 66
Maryland 56
Indiana 55
North Carolina 55
Wisconsin 44
Arizona 310
Louisiana 33
Virginia 29
Florida 22
New Mexico 22
Pennsylvania 22
Tennessee 22
Mississippi 12
Colorado 11
Michigan 11
Nebraska 11
New Jersey 11
Oregon 11
Texas 11
Rhode Island 02

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Technology Center Explainer

How Tech Centers and Art Units Are Organized And Why It Matters

Patents travel from Technology Center to Art Unit to Group Art Unit to Patent Examiner.

The USPTO's patent corps is organized into Technology Centers (TCs), groups of patent examiners with specific scientific and technical domain expertise. Technology Centers are further divided into Art Units (AUs) organized by major types of inventive art within a scientific or technical domain. Art Units are organized into Group Art Units, even more specialized and granular teams of examiners.

Group Art Units (GAUs) are where patent examiners prosecute patent applications. Patent applications are docketed to examiners based on specific subject matter classifications of a particular GAU.

Understanding Technology Centers, Art Units, and Group Art Units helps you understand what type of inventions are being prosecuted within each scientific and technical domain, how long it takes from the date a patent application is filed to the time a final decision on the patentability of the invention is made.

Technology Centers and Art Units

Click or touch the accordion panel to open it and see the way different types of inventions are grouped together within Art Units.

Patents examined here cover:

Art Unit Technical & Scientific Domains
1610 Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs
1620 Organic Chemistry
1630 Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry
1640 Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology
1650 Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzyme
1660 Plants

About Plant Patents

Plant Patents are granted to an inventor who has invented, or discovered and asexually reproduced a distinct and new variety of plant, other than a tuber propagated plant or a plant found in an uncultivated state. If you've ever eaten a pluot, you've enjoyed the fruit of a plant patent.

Plant patent numbers begin with a "PP" followed by a five digit number. The first Plant Patent was issued in 1931. Plant patents are valid for 20 years from the filing date.

Patents examined here cover:

Art Unit Technical & Scientific Domains
1710 Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth
1720 Fuel Cells, Batteries, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Composition
1730 Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalysts, Electrophotography, Photolithography
1740 Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding
1760 Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions
1770 Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus
1780 Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material, Adhesive Composition, Fabrics
1790 Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry

Patents examined here cover:

Art Unit Technical & Scientific Domains
2110 Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth
2120 Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material, Adhesive Composition, Fabrics
2130 Fuel Cells, Batteries, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Composition
2140/2170 Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalysts, Electrophotography, Photolithography
2150/2160 Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding
2180 Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions
2190 Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus

Patents examined here cover:

Art Unit Technical & Scientific Domains
2410/2460/2470 Multiplex, VoIP
2420 Cable and Television
2430/2490 Cryptography and Security
2440/2450 Computer Networks
2480 Recording and Compression

Patents examined here cover:

Art Unit Technical & Scientific Domains
2610 Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory
2620 Selective Visual Display Systems
2630 Digital and Optical Communications
2640 Telecommunications: Analog Radio Telephone; Satellite and Power Control; Transceivers, Measuring and Testing; Bluetooth; Receivers and Transmitters; Equipment Details
2650 Videophones and Telephonic Communications; Audio Signals; Digital Audio Data Processing; Linguistics, Speech Processing and Audio Compression
2660 Digital Cameras; Image Analysis; Applications; pattern Recognition; Color and Compression; Enhancement and Transformation
2670 Facsimile; Printer; Color; halftone; Scanner; Computer Graphic Processing; 3-D Animation; Display Color; Attributes; Object Processing; Hardware and Memory
2680 Telemetry and Code Generation; Vehicles and System Alarms; Selective Communication; Dynamic Storage Systems; Mechanical parts of Disk Drives; Signal Processing and Control Processing in Disk Drives
2690 Selective Visual Display Systems

More broadly TC 2800 Art Units cover Semiconductors/Memory, Circuits/Measuring and Testing, Optics/Photocopying, Printing/Measuring and Testing.

Patents examined here cover:

Art Unit Technical & Scientific Domains
2810/2820/2890 Semiconductors/Memory
2830/2840 Electrical Circuits and Systems
2850/2860 Printing/Measuring and Testing
2870/2880 Optics

About Design Patents

The design FOR an article. Not to the design OF an article.

Patents examined here cover Design patents cover the appearance of an article. The design for an article consists of the visual characteristics embodied in or applied to an article. Since a design is manifested in appearance, the subject matter of a design patent application may relate to the configuration or shape of an article, to the surface ornamentation applied to an article, or to the combination of configuration and surface ornamentation.

Design is inseparable from the article to which it is applied and cannot exist alone merely as a scheme of surface ornamentation. It must be a definite, preconceived thing, capable of reproduction and not merely the chance result of a method.

Design patent numbers begin with a "D" followed by a six digit number. The first Design Patent was issued in 1843. The term of a design patent is 15 years measured from the date of grant, if the design application was filed on or after May 13, 2015 (or 14 years if filed before May 13, 2015).

Patents examined here cover:

Art Unit Technical & Scientific Domains
3610 Surface Transportation
3620 Business Methods — Incentive Programs, Coupons; Operations Research; Electronic Shopping; Health Care; Point of Sale, Inventory, Accounting; Cost/Price, Reservations, Shipping and Transportation; Business Processing
3630 Static Structures, Supports and Furniture
3640 Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review
3650 Material and Article Handling
3660 Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems
3670 Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware
3680 Business Methods — Incentive Programs, Coupons; Electronic Shopping; Business Cryptography, Voting; Health Care; Point of Sale, Inventory, Accounting; Business Processing, Electronic Negotiation
3690 Business Methods — Finance/Banking/ Insurance

Patents examined here cover:

Art Unit Technical & Scientific Domains
3710 Amusement and Education Devices
3720 Manufacturing Devices and Processes, Machine Tools and Hand Tools
3730 Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting
3740 Thermal and Combustion Technology, Motive and Fluid Power Systems
3750 Fluid Handling and Dispensing
3760 Refrigeration, Vaporization, Ventilation, and Combustion
3770 Medical & Surgical Instruments, Treatment Devices, Surgery and Surgical Supplies
3780 Body Treatment, Kinestherapy, and Exercising

Patents examined here cover:

Art Unit Technical & Scientific Domains
3970 Express Abandonments
3990 Central Reexamination Unit

FedInvent Patents

Each week FedInvent analyzes newly granted patents and published patent applications whose origins lead back to funding from the US federal government. We assemble a weekly patent catalog and analyze the inventions, the inventors, and the entities who received the patents. We map the patents back to the agency that funded the R&D that led to the new invention. FedInvent uses the funding opportunity descriptions, the grants, and the contracts that define the research areas of interest, and the R&D policies and priorities of that drove and are driving the funding to organize each week's patents.

ABOUT OUR DATA

The weekly patent catalog includes patents with government interest statements indicating federal funding; and patents where the assignee, the owner of the invention, is the federal government. This includes work on federal grants, work on federal contracts, innovation by Federal Research and Development Centers (FFRDCs) funded by Federal Departments and University Affiliated Research Centers funded by DoD.

Not every inventor is a government contractor. There are many inventions conceived and patented by scientists and engineers working for the federal government or serving in the military.

THE NUMBERS MAY NOT MATCH THE NUMBER OF PATENTS WE ANALYZE EACH WEEK

The numbers in the tables presented on this page will not add up to the number of patents granted each week because patents are counted by each agency that funded the creation of the invention. Patents and funding have a many-to-many relationship. One patent may have more than one funding grant or contract associated with it. A grant or contract may lead to more than one patent. More than one agency may have funded the inventors or the contract. More than one university or business may have worked together on an invention. When we report the numbers here, we associate a patent with all of the entities and funding that are reflected on the patent and report them to you. This approach presents a more complete picture of what's going on in the federal innovation ecosphere. Put another way, the numbers in the tables presented on this page may not always add up to the number of patents each week because patents are counted by each agency that funded the creation of the invention.

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